Investment 1: maria keeps $500 in her savings account. it earns 3 percent interest. investment 2: sarah buys 100 shares of stock in a new company. she plans to sell them when the price increases by 50 percent. investment 3: amit buys 500 shares of a mutual fund that has made money every year for the past five years. 1. which investor is taking the most risk? explain why. 2. whose investment is the most liquid? explain why. 3. which investment probably has the highest potential return? explain why. 4. who has a higher chance of losing all the money they invested sarah or amit? why? this is economics but they don't have that option for subjects.

When analyzing the election of 1876, what conclusion can be drawn? a.a majority of northerners wanted to enforce reconstruction policies more stringently.b.if tilden had won the electoral votes from louisiana, florida, or south carolina, he would have been elected president.c.the republican party had increased its support in the south.d.rutherford hayes did poorly in the western states.e.the republican party did a good job protecting the voting rights of african-americans in mississippi.

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

How do corporate finances, investor expectations and external forces influence stock prices and possibly pose a risk to investors